After riding 2 months through Japan in autumn of 2017, I am now back in Europe, working... but still riding on my brompton whenever possible. Currently this is mainly in the Netherlands, close to home. But hopefully other countries will join the list.

Sunday, 6 June 2021

Going South - Day 2

Route: Veghel - Eindhoven 
Distance: 89 km
Elevation: 84m
Duration: 4:37
Average speed: 19.3 km/h
Weather: 18 C, cloudy but dry, sun only getting out when already in train

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=15mJaeV-q9ZKOf7Dwg8QhSu0tzW3aM4xe


As my original plan to sleep in Eindhoven and then ride South from there into Belgium and Ride through the trees didn’t succeed yesterday, I was free for new plans today. And plans I made! 4 different options. Option 1 & 2 involved riding to Maastricht (or stopping a bit earlier in Roermond). Options 3 & 4 I came up this morning and were more centered in nice (or at least potentially nice) landscape and less in distance and getting as much to the South possible. This landscape decision was definitely a good one. Very varied landscape. Some riding along canals, some through agriculture landscape, a lot through nature reserve with either forests or heathlands. 

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1lhZbQSjAc42mCuN4t-NC8K6jc4qzRRxjhttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1qNN5ZBgPC3J_UFsUJ1pLYigtBXY_kabs
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1_1WFAXyFa-GyUIVdfx3QWsYSPHv0Zu-a

And not a single polder!!!  It wasn’t all landscape either. There was a nice, small (and private) castle as well.

 https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1UJKh-G-6QJac6L2hzBjZX_HJPKfLC7HS

It wasn’t a fast ride as there was quite some gravel involved but a very scenic ride. And definitely something I am going to repeat with people from the meetup group. At the right moment in time a small Biergarten appeared in the middle of a forest:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1EN38PJrcMzQ61es-bb0bUv8sUp6TlV6K

And , hey, I went as much to the South (and actually a few meters more) as current Corona restrictions allow:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view&id=1D7vhe4l0Uji82RVD0HGvSCZvEUqfdShb

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